Rocket is a new Rust web framework that has been released to the public late last year. It aims to provide a simple way to write and maintain fast and safe web applications.

I have been waiting for something like this for quite some time, from the way it looks it tries to be the Rails of the Rust world.

One part of that is being able to easily test your applications. After all, without tests it is almost impossible to be confident that the output conforms to what is expected, especially in an evolving codebase.

I’ve been recently wanting to try out stainless as well. Stainless is a plugin that allows you to write tests easier through a macro like syntax. Especially the before_each part of testing seemed very useful. Check out it’s project page for some example!